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37 Winchester

4205raymond4205raymond Member Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2017 in General Discussion
Have you ever seen a 37 Winchester marked US PROPERTY. Any details greatly appreciated.
Ray
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,426 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    no, but we did have a few 1100's and a couple model 12's in the armory that were part of base property, we could check them out on the weekends to hunt if you wanted to. I don't remember them being stamped us property, but to much beer has blurred the memory of those days.....
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  • LesWVaLesWVa Member Posts: 10,490 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have saw two of them. Was told they were mainly used by the National Guard during WW2.
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  • toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,008 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I was in battle that would be the guy that I'd want to meet....the one with a single shot shotgun....
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  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,554 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by LesWVa
    I have saw two of them. Was told they were mainly used by the National Guard during WW2.


    Same thing that I was told
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  • 4205raymond4205raymond Member Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by LesWVa
    I have saw two of them. Was told they were mainly used by the National Guard during WW2.
    Les, Can you recall if they were stamped on the left buttstock and did you see them in W.Virginia? I am still trying to re-find my source and supposedly a little over 5,000 were issued to the National Guard during WW2. Quite a few folks claim they saw them handed out as loaners to GI's from special services in the Army but no mention of marking. There was also claim(maybe rumor)that NG ran short and used them at Kent State. When I was shooting at Ft.Dix I had to store my NM M-1 in the arms room for the 57th MP's at the Point. Do you think those loaners would have been kept in post arms room?
    Ray
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  • LesWVaLesWVa Member Posts: 10,490 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saw them at a gun show here in WV.

    The left side of the receiver just behind the barrel was stamped U.S. and they had numbers on the "pistol" grip of the stock just behind the trigger guard (was told they were rack numbers for the armory where they came from). They also did not have any serial numbers that I recall nor the markings of a "red letter" M37.

    I recall the guy saying that the NG was issued the 37's because all of the pump guns were sent to the front.
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  • 4205raymond4205raymond Member Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    LesWVa, thanks for info. I will try to make some of gun shows and visit gun shops in W.Va. on my many trips to Central Va. I suppose someone will find some stacked in a corner in a old Armory that is about to be torn down someday. Son is a W.Va.Grad. Go Mountaineers!
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